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ericsson is offline ericsson
2011-02-01 , 20:11
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Quick on the attack, I see.


Yes, so MARGIN. They know that the high end handsets have a better return per sale, so they're pushing to actually get a high end device out on the market. If what you say is true, then it is all the more important.


So did you have a point, or did you just want to yell at me?
Teaspoon method I see. China and India are open markets, they are huge markets and they are markets for all kinds of handsets, from the cheapest to the most exclusive. They are the largest markets in the world, combined they are 1/3 of the entire population on this globe. The US market is also large, but it is no real market. From a commercial handset point of view it is like trying to sell VW to the USSR during the cold war: impossibe unless you bribe some of the "big guys" and have one foot inside the polit bureau.

But if you don't get it, tell me one reason Nokia, or anyone else, should persue the US market instead of Cina and India or Asia in general. Competing head to head with a heavily subsidised iPhone and Androids in iPhone/Android homeland consisting exclusively of iAndroid zealots, is not what I would call tempting when it is not even a market in the right sense of the word. I mean, look at any US blog.

It is not without reason the US citizens only have a tiny subset of phones available to choose from compared with what is available elsewhere in the world, anywhere else.